CineBRASIL

The festival will include 7 films (2 fiction features, 5 documentaries, 4 shorts, and a student research presentation for the Opening Night).

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Thursday, March 5

Nós do Cinema (We of the Cinema): with Q&A to follow , MacMillan 117, 6:00 PM

Friday, March 6           

Crítico (Critic): MacMillan 117, 4:00 PM
Bang Bang: with Q&A to follow, MacMillan 117, 6:00 PM
Tira os Óculos e Recolhe o Homem (Take Off the Glasses and Arrest the Man): MacMillan 117, 8:00 PM (short)
Manda Bala (Send a Bullet): with Q&A to follow, MacMillan 117, 8:30 PM

Saturday, March 7         

O Aborto dos Outros (Someone Else’s Abortion): MacMillan 117, 1:30 PM
Serras de Desordem (The Hills of Disorder): with Q&A to follow, MacMillan 117, 3:30 PM
Booker Pittman: MacMillan 117, 6:00 PM (short)
Simonal: Ninguém Sabe O Duro Que De (Simonal:No One Knows How Tough It Was): MacMillan 117, 6:00 PM
Dossiê Re Bordosa: Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 8:00 PM (short)
Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad): Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 8:00 PM

Feature Films invited:

OPENING NIGHT: Nós do Cinema Project  (We of the Cinema)
Finn Yarbrough / 45 minutes / MiniDV / 2008
A project born from last year’s CineBRASIL’s Oliver Kwon Grant program, the two winners (Chaney Harrison and Finn Yarbrough) are coming this year to screen their documentary filmed in Brazil and discuss the whole process: Rio de Janeiro has come to be infamous for police- and drug-related brutality—violence that often befalls the city’s youth. But the students enrolled at Cinéma Nosso battle negative stereotypes and harsh realities through the art of film. Yet in an ironic twist, the students discover that the very organization masquerading as their golden opportunity has an agenda of its own. Nós do Cinema follows six Cariocas through the streets of Rio as they struggle to overcome these obstacles and pursue their love of cinema. Q&A to follow.

Crítico (Critic)
Kleber Mendonça Filho / 82 minutes/ MiniDV / 2008
70 critics and filmmakers discuss cinema from the age-old conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. From 1998 to 2007, Kleber Mendonça Filho collected points of view about this relationship in Brazil, USA, and Europe, using his personal experience as both filmmaker and critic. Crítico opens a window to an art which is more and more judged by the industry and which struggles to remain human in the way it is realized and observed.

Bang Bang
Andrea Tonacci / 85 minutes / 35 mm / 1971 – Original Portuguese language without subtitles!
A film actor lives without distinguishing between his personal reality and that of his film character.  As an involuntary object of cause and circumstance, he looks for meaning and a way out of this situation as he is pursued by bandits, a magician, a romantic fantasy, a drunkard, and his own self-image.  Bang Bang is a humorous and visually modern journey.  Q&A to follow.

Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
Jason Kohn / 85 minutes / Digital Video / 2007
In recent years, Brazil has developed a reputation for corrupt politicians, kidnapping, and plastic surgery. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) artfully connects these seemingly disparate elements and conducts a dazzling yet harrowing examination of the tragic domino effect that has reshaped the face of the country and created an entire industry built on corruption. Q&A to follow.

O Aborto dos Outros (Someone Else’s Abortion)
Carla Gallo / 72 minutes / 35 mm / 2008
In Brazil, abortion is a crime except in the case of rape, danger to the mother’s life, and certain instances of severe, fatal birth defects. O Aborto dos Outros focuses on women who obtain these legal abortions but also reveals the drama of illegal, clandestine abortions. The film shows the perverse effects criminalization has on women and demonstrates the need for the reform of Brazil’s abortion laws.

Serras de Desordem (The Hills of Disorder)
Andrea Tonacci / 135 minutes / 35mm/ 2006
Carapiru is a nomadic Brazilian who escapes from an attack conducted by farmers against his village. For 10 years he wanders the Brazilian sierras alone until he is captured 2000 km from his home and brought to Brasilia. There, he is reunited with his son, who takes his father back to their village.  However, after years of interaction with contemporary urban centres of Brazil, Carapiru finds it difficult to reconnect with his nomadic lifestyle. Q&A to follow.

Simonal: Ninguém Sabe O Duro Que Dei (Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was)
Claudio Manoel, Micael Langer & Calvito Leal/ 92minutes/ 2006
Simonal follows the trajectory of a former army private whose reign of Brazilian pop culture ended in ostracism for a crime of which he swore he was innocent. Through interviews of friends and enemies and through images of his exuberant performances, Simonal answers many questions for the first time in history. Was Simonal an informant during the Brazilian dictatorship? Was he friendly with the military? Or was his greatest crime being black, a millionaire, and a sex symbol during a time of latent racism in Brazil?

CLOSING NIGHT: Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad)
José Padilha /115 minutes / 35mm / 2007
ELITE SQUAD, winner of the Golden Bear at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, is one of the most explosive and controversial films in the history of Brazilian cinema.  Based on true accounts from co-director Rodrigo Pimentel's 19 years as a military police officer and captain, the film is a  powerfully gritty and slyly engrossing story of cops, crooks, and the (very few) people in between.  ELITE SQUAD was co-written by José Padilha (Parada 174), Academy Award®- nominated writer Bráulio Mantovani (CITY OF GOD), and Rodrigo Pimentel.

Short Films invited:

ALL FILMS WITH ENGLISH SUB-TITLES, except BANG BANG!

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT

Jose Torrealba (jose_torrealba@brown.edu) – Susan Hirsch (susan_hirsch@brown.edu)


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